•Site of the crash A military transport plane crashed yesterday when taking off in Colombia, officials said, with at least 80 people aboard though there were conflicting reports about how many troops were dead and injured. As many as 50 people may have survived when the Hercules aircraft went down shortly after departure from Puerto […]...
•A Satena Airlines aircraft A twin-propeller aircraft carrying 15 people, including a Colombian lawmaker, Diogenes Quintero, has crashed in a mountainous region near the Venezuelan border. According to our correspondent, the aircraft departed from the border city of Cúcuta and lost contact with air traffic control shortly before it was schedul...
An Indian state’s deputy leader was killed along with four other people today after their chartered aircraft crashed in the country’s west, officials said. The plane carrying Ajit Pawar, Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister, crashed in an open field at about 8:44 am (0314 GMT) while landing at the state’s Baramati airport, the civil aviation mi...
•Lieutenant General Mohammed al-Haddad The head of Libya’s armed forces and four other high-ranking military officials died when their business jet crashed shortly after taking off from Ankara, officials in Turkey’s capital and Tripoli said. The wreckage of their Falcon 50 aircraft was located by Turkish security personnel in the Haymana distr...
•Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to Ramesh at the hospital today The UK-based family of the lone survivor of the Air India crash was torn today between joy at his miracle escape and grief at the loss of his brother. “We are happy Vishwash has been saved, but on the other hand […]
•Air India Bhoomi Chauhan remembers being angry and frustrated. Bumper-to-bumper traffic had delayed her car journey to Ahmedabad airport – so much so that she missed her Air India flight to London Gatwick by just 10 minutes, reports AFP. •Bhoomi Chauhan Ms Chauhan, a business administration student who lives in Bristol with her husband, had [...
•Back of the London-bound Air India plane after it crashed yesterday Investigators today recovered a black box recorder from the crash site of a London-bound passenger jet that ploughed into a residential area of India’s Ahmedabad city, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground. The Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner issued [&hell...
•Crash site Forty-six people, including top military officers, were killed when a Sudanese military transport plane crashed into a residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of Khartoum, the regional government said yesterday. Sudanese senior commander Major Gen. Bahr Ahmed is among the people who have been killed in the accident, according to...
•Russian President Vladimir Putin President Vladimir Putin has expressed regret over the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane on Christmas Day, describing the incident as a tragic occurrence, but refraining from admitting any responsibility on Russia’s part. In a statement issued by the Kremlin on Saturday, it was revealed that Putin had spok...
•The crash site The Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan this week suffered “physical external interference”, the airline and Azerbaijan’s transport minister stated today. Preliminary findings from the investigation have fuelled speculation that the aircraft was struck by a Russian air defence system, reports AFP. The jet crash...

